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Providing Opportunities for Patients to Say More about Their Pain without Overtly Asking: A Conversation Analysis of Doctors Repeating Patient Answers in Palliative Care Pain Assessment
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Jenkins, Laura; Parry, Ruth; Pino, Marco – Applied Linguistics, 2021
As the main symptom in palliative care, pain requires careful assessment. Repeating patient answers is one recommended communication technique for helping convey to patients that they have been heard, and to encourage them to say more. We examined 23 episodes where experienced doctors repeat patients' answers with mirrored rhythm and…
Descriptors: Patients, Interpersonal Communication, Discourse Analysis, Pain
Evaluating Bilingual Children's Native Language Abilities in Cote D'Ivoire: Introducing the Ivorian Children's Language Assessment Toolkit for Attié, Abidji, and Baoulé
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Jasinska, Kaja; Akpe, Yapo Hermann; Seri, Blahoua Axel Debaye; Zinszer, Benjamin; Agui-Kouadio, Rodrigue Yoffo; Mulford, Kelsey; Curran, Erin; Ball, Mary-Claire; Tanoh, Fabrice – Applied Linguistics, 2022
Few standardized language assessments are adapted to different cultural and linguistic contexts to assess children's first language (L1) abilities. We introduce the Ivorian Children's Language Assessment Toolkit for measuring phonological awareness, vocabulary, oral comprehension, and tone awareness in the Abidji, Attié, and Baoulé languages of…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Narration, Native Language, Language of Instruction
A Closer Look at Formulaic Language: Prosodic Characteristics of Swedish Proverbs
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Hallin, Anna Eva; Van Lancker Sidtis, Diana – Applied Linguistics, 2017
Formulaic expressions (such as idioms, proverbs, and conversational speech formulas) are currently a topic of interest. Examination of prosody in formulaic utterances, a less explored property of formulaic expressions, has yielded controversial views. The present study investigates prosodic characteristics of proverbs, as one type of formulaic…
Descriptors: Swedish, Proverbs, Intonation, Suprasegmentals
Sound Evidence: The Missing Piece of the Jigsaw in Formulaic Language Research
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Lin, Phoebe M. S. – Applied Linguistics, 2012
With the ever increasing number of studies on formulaic language, we are beginning to learn more about the processing of formulaic language (e.g. Ellis et al. 2008; Siyanova et al. 2011), its use in speech (e.g. Aijmer 1996; Wood 2012) and writing (e.g. Hyland 2008a, 2008b) and its application in natural language processing (e.g. Tschichold 2000).…
Descriptors: Evidence, Language Research, Applied Linguistics, Memory